Wouldn't we love to replace passwords access control to avoid theft, forgotten passwords? Wouldn't we like to enter the security areas just in seconds? Yes the answer is face recognition. In this study we explore and compare the performance of three algorithms namely LDA, CCA, AAM. LDA (an evolution of PCA is a dimensionality reduction technique where it solves the problem of illumination to some extent, maximizing the inter class separation and minimizing the intra class variations. CCA, a measure of linear relationship between two multidimensional variables where it takes the advantage of PCA and LDA for maximizing the correlation and better performance. AAM is a model based approach where it just picks the landmarks of the images for recognition therefore reducing the error rate and producing good performance rate. © Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2015.